DizzyDale Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 Here is the question for a slow Sunday.Whats the MOST under powered SLUG you ever had the pleasure or dis pleasure of driving or riding in?It was a tie for me, my Dads 1962 Chevy 10 series,6 cyl,3 speed pick-up,with the slide in camper or his 1962 Chevy two,which i believe had a 4-cylinder in it.Dad was NEVER on the performance page.Either one of these vehicles needed a sun dial to record 0-60 times.I do not remember the cost of the Chevy Two but i will NEVER forget the truck,NAKED as a jay-bird, 1500.00$,NO i did not put the decimal point in the wrong place.diz <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Stoneberg Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 I think the `88 Buick Electra Station Wagon with the smogged out 307 and 3.23 rear end qulaifies for a slug. The thing wont get out of its own way and it takes forever to go anywhere.Maybe the day was slow cause everyone was outside playing with their cars as opposed to reading about them ? I know I was.Good question though Diz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 1928 Essex. Excessively low geared rear to compensate for it's considerable weight and weak power output.You would shift into high and wait with the accelerator floored until it gradually caught up.If you encountered anything more than a moderate rise on the road it would slow down alarmingly and require dropping down to 2nd which I became quite skilled at.All this with a rebuilt balanced engine brought to 1932 specs!Sure was a nice looking car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skyking Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 1982 Chrysler LeBaron with the 4cyl. carburetored Mitsubushi engine. WoW!, what a slug....I always swore the car had a governor on it. Quite a big difference fron my 89' fuel injected LeBaron......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 The used Mercedes diesel Dad bought in the early 1970's almost got me killed due to zero acceleration abilities. We used to joke about the Mercedes a club member had, walking uphill was faster than riding in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6219_Rules Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 Hands down....my Dad's best friend's 1968 fullsize Chevrolet 302 with a three on the tree. It was green because of the moss that grew on it! But he was cheap, as most academicians tended to be, and pointed out it would carry a family of 5, with all their luggage. Of course you measured family trips with archaeomagnetic dating. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbllc Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 I think the slowest car I ever drove was a 1951 plymouth flat head 6 with 3 on the tree. This car was so bad that I could rev up the engine while at a stand still, pop the clutch, speed shift up to 2nd and then to third and when it was all over, still not be breaking any speed limits. Oh, yeah, top end? 77 MPH. Maybe 78 downhill with hurricane force winds behind me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Kinker Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 Mine was a 59 Beetle with the stock, tired 36 horse engine. It was slow, but a blast to drive!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
another old car Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 those old 70's ford U-Haul trucksman you could walk faster up a hill <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stude8 Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 My first choice of worst would be the 1959 VW bus a co-worker had, we had to drive it a hundred miles south of Chicago to pickup a load of electronic supplies. His "Cruise control" was a piece of 1x2 furring that he jammed under the dash to hold the gas pedal to the floor. Illinois is as flat as a pool table for that trip and we never got over 60mph once. You couldn't consider passing any one, we followed a farm truck with bales of hay 8 feet high for 10 miles at 45 mph, not a prayer to get around him. Stude8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave@Moon Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 The biggest slug I ever drove was my 1960 Falcon. It was a first month of production car, with the 144 (2.0L) six with the two speed Fordomatic and the rare open element air filter. It was rated 85 hp., and it took constant tuning to maintain that blazing level of performance.The real problem was the two-speed, too-high and too-low. It was obviously a three speed automatic with first gear missing and a very low second. Consequently unless you were going 15 or 50 mph you were <span style="font-style: italic">way</span> out of the little six's power band. This made for not only poor and <span style="font-weight: bold">very</span> uneven acceleration, but (given the catcher's mitt-like aerodynamics of the 1960 front end) this car had a top end lower than anything I ever drove. And that includes two different VW buses! <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />Zero to sixty with this car was somewhere north of 20 seconds. Contemporary tests of the car when new somehow managed to beat 25-28 second quarter-miles out of new automatics (the manual car was <span style="font-style: italic">much</span> faster.But it was the top end limitations that were most scary. This was as much aerodynamic related as it was due to the tranny. Measuring gas milage back and forth on long two-way trips a difference of 10 mpg were common, and over 15 mpg occurred twice! I was once driving the car into a 40 mph headwind on I-78 in Allentown, PA. My <span style="font-style: italic">top</span> speed was 50 mph.... [color:"red"]<span style="font-weight: bold">and it took a good five minutes floored to get there! </span> <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> I was once driving in the car in Ames, Iowa when the radio announced by surprise that the Rolling Stones were having their only small venue show of the 1982 tour in DesMoines, and tickets were beign sold (there only) beginning immediately. I was 30 miles away. Floored the entire distance under ideal circumstances, with a slight tail wind, the car <span style="font-style: italic">could not</span> top 72 mph. When they ran out of tickets and closed the doors I was tenth in line. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /><span style="font-style: italic">ALL</span> of those things occurred while the car was in absolute peak tune. I can only imagine what a neglected version of this car would be like. ------------------------------------------------------One of my old state cars in PA was a 2.6L Mitsubishi/K-Car. It was terribly slow as well. The other car we had with the same motor (all the rest were 2.2L Mopar motors) was <span style="font-style: italic">much</span> faster. Later on the car blew it's head gasket, which we found out was somehow mis-installed. With a new head gasket the car was genuinely quite fast for a K-Car (blew the 2.2's into the weeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ex98thdrill Posted September 14, 2003 Share Posted September 14, 2003 1982 Chevy C-20 with a 305 v-8 and a 4-speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amphicar BUYER Posted September 15, 2003 Share Posted September 15, 2003 Hands down it is definately my Amphicar. It is way fun, but a slug none the less! It is geared soooo low that if I start out in 1st, by the time I cross the intersection, I'm in 2nd, and by the time I hit 35 MPH I am into 4th! They are rated to do a 45 deg. incline in 1st!I saw a "performance" study on them. I believe the had the 0-60 listed at 43 seconds!John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DeSoto Frank Posted September 15, 2003 Share Posted September 15, 2003 Dave:Ditto that on the Falcon 144/Ford-O-Matic !Had Mom's '62 Falcon with same engine/tranny combo at college my first year, and it sure was doggy, especially compared to MY '62 Falcon with the 170 & 3-speed (which got killed earlier that year by a big,bad Buick).Another sluggard I had (and have almost forgotten about) was a '77 Chevy Monza coupe.Frank McMullen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_SKYSTHELIMIT Posted September 17, 2003 Share Posted September 17, 2003 Slowest slug was a car I bought and drove for only one week. An 86ish Plymouth Fury which had I think a 305 V-8 with a top speed of 45mph. It was all messed up. The previous owner ripped out half the vacumm linesand the the dash lights positive wire for use for the radio. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> Figured that out when I played with the dimmer knob and the radio would go of and on. Also the gas tank when you would hit a big enough bump would hit the ground and the mag rims didn't have the right lugs and the wheels almost fell off the car. Found out the hard way the e-brake didn't work when the brakes gave out. Luckly I was parking the car at the time and threw it in park just before I hit a brand new Mercedes. After that I traded it for an old home stereo system. All that and a good friend of mine sold it to me!!!! <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxnard Montalvo Posted September 17, 2003 Share Posted September 17, 2003 My Brother's 1974 Datsun B-210 Hatchback. 0-60 time of 22.6 seconds. I've been on faster ships. This site lists many 1/4 mile and 0-60 times. It's far from complete or up to date but interesting.web page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 18, 2003 Share Posted September 18, 2003 I have to add my 2 cents here. When I was 17 and significantly stupider I had this ancient Triumph Triple motorcycle. It was way clapped out. I decided to take a run up to Amarillo. On the way back 2 cylinders dropped out. No spark. Finding no bike shop and no parts store to carry parts for this thing I bought 4 cans of starting fluid. Periodically I had to spray ether down the intake to keep it running to get home. I don't know if any of you have ever rode a single cylinder motorcycle 700 miles. Trust me it is slow going and it's damn tough to work the controls with a can of ether in one hand. AAA? I don't need to waste money on AAA..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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